It’s just a day at the match for Christopher Miller who was caught on camera causing mayhem after Newcastle United’s derby clash with Sunderland.

But now the smirk has been wiped off his face after he was hit with a football banning order, barring him from all games for four years.

Newcastle Magistrates’ Court heard Miller, of Coppice Way, Shieldfield, Newcastle, turned himself in after his mugshot featured in the Chronicle following the ugly scenes which erupted after the grudge fixture at St James’s Park in April.

Police had appealed to the public to shop the ringleaders of the disorder, which saw hundreds of Toon supporters hurl abuse and pelt missiles as officers tried to escort opposing fans away from the ground.

Miller, 21, was caught on camera leaping around at the front of a crowd, before retreating, taking his United shirt off and twirling it round his head.

Later, he was pictured goading police by pretending to have a truncheon and grabbing his groin while shouting obscenities. And while police continued to try and control the crowd, he was shown picking up a binbag and chucking it at the line of officers.

Miller was arrested after presenting himself to Pilgrim Street police station following our appeal and went on to plead guilty to using threatening words or behaviour. But he tried to fight an application to have a football banning order imposed on him at a separate hearing. His lawyer, John Foley, told the court his client accepted he had behaved in a “loutish, stupid, drunken way”.

He added: “He has told me had it not been for the drink, he wouldn’t have behaved like that.”

PC Steve Graham, of Northumbria Police’s football intelligence unit, played footage of Miller’s behaviour to the court.

He told the court of the large-scale police operation involved on derby days, both at Newcastle and Sunderland, and added: “We had more than 60 Sunderland coaches waiting to drive off.

“The behaviour of Mr Miller and others like him distracted our operation and caused major problems in the city centre.”

He was fined £100, along with a £15 victim surcharge for the offence of using threatening words or behaviour. A four-year football banning order was also imposed on him, which prevents him from being in city and towns where the Toon play, as well as the centre of Newcastle four hours before and after home games.